Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1919 — TRIAL TESTS THRILL THE RAIL BIRDS. [ARTICLE]

TRIAL TESTS THRILL THE RAIL BIRDS.

Rene Thomas, winner of the 1914 five hundred mile race at the Indianapolis speedway, qualified for the race to be run next Saturday when he stepped a mile at the rate of 104 miles an hour in his new Ballot car. The daring of the Frenchman made the spectators gasp for breath as he took the turns without diminishing the speed of his car. Thirty-three cars will be entered in the race Saturday and all will be cars which have made the minimum qualifying time of ninety miles an hour or better. The drivers who qualified Tuesday in the time trials were: Rene Thomas, Howdy Wilcox, Albert Guyot, DePalma, E. O’Donnell, Paul Bablot, Art Klein, E. Hearne, Earl Cooper, Ira Vail and Charles Kirkpatrick.